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ADOLPHE MOT, 0F WASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA;

Letters Patent N 105,479,1lated July .19, 1870;.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

To all whom it may conccrn Be it -known that I, Anon-HE Mo'r, a citizen of the United States, residing in Washington, District of Columbia, have invented a new Process for Making Butter, of which the following is a specification.

.I alnaware that an attempt was 'made to obtain butter by burying cream under ground.

That 'process', described in page 148, Patent Office Report, 1844,

is based on the chemical action of damp earth. It

does not separate the buttermilk, which otherwise My processis based on the principles of attraction and repulsion. By means of dry materials it separates and collects the buttermilk.

This double effect is obtained by placing cream in contact with any dry, porous substance, able to exert capillary attraction: in preference, sponge, baked clay, pumice-stone,charcoal, and by submitting cream and porous'materials to centrifugal propulsion.

The operation is performed as follows \Vithin a. large t-ub place a smaller perforated tub, which'is traversed by a central perpendicular shaft,

, and supplied with organs to receive circular motion.

Fill the lower half of the small tub with any porous ,substance. Place upon it the cream tied in small bags.. Fill the "tub with porous substance; press down, cover, and let it rest.

When a large quantity of cream is acted upon or prompt result desired, the porous substance being wet, rapid motion must be given for a few minutes to the tub,'in order to restore, help, ouexcitc the attractive energy of the porous materials by drying them. i V

After a few hours perfectbnttcr is taken out of the bags. Then give motion -to the apparatus; the buttermilk is projected into the large tub; remove it; add

water to wash the materials; give motion to dry them,

Witnesses;

WILLIAM GRAY, Immune Essen. 

